Outbreak of norovirus infection among river rafters associated with packaged delicatessen meat, Grand Canyon, 2005

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 31-37

  Malek, Mark ^a   Barzilay, Ezra ^b   Kramer, Adam ^c   Camp, Brendan ^a   Jaykus, Lee Ann ^e   Escudero Abarca, Blanca ^e   Derrick, Greg ^f   White, Patricia ^g   Gerba, Charles ^d   Higgins, Charles ^c   Vinje, Jan ^a   Glass, Roger ^a   Lynch, Michael ^b   Widdowson, Marc Alain ^a,h  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^g U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^h CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROL GROUP; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES CULTURE; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD PROCESSING; GASTROENTERITIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEAT; MEAT INDUSTRY; NOROVIRUS; NOROVIRUS INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECREATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK; RIVER; RIVER RAFTING; TELEPHONE; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FECES; FOOD POISONING; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; MEAT PRODUCTS; NOROVIRUS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 57749119636     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/594118     Document Type: Article

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